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Workbook: Impact of Mental Health on Daily Routines

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This resource is for clients working through a mental health diagnosis such as anxiety or depression. Gives prompts for writing down questions, areas of difficulty, impacts of diagnoses, and prioritizing wants and needs. May be a good introduction to journaling for those with anxiety or depression, serves as a reminder of the people in a person’s support system, and guides OT intervention and plan of care in a way that prioritizes function and mental health.
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Strategies and Techniques to Reduce Anxiety

January 9, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This OT intervention includes ways to reduce anxiety for purposes of incorporation into a holistic plan of care. Gives concrete strategies to incorporate into daily life. May also be a resource for caregivers or even clinicians who feel burned out or need positive coping strategies during stressful times.
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Readiness for Change

January 5, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout provides clinicians with a visual representation of the stages of change based on the transtheoretical model of change and can be used with clients to encourage self-reflection and initiate a discussion on behavior change. 
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Patient Self-Management

January 2, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This resource provides the clinician with tools to assess an individual’s engagement with their chronic conditions, engagement during therapy sessions, and a resource to access additional patient-reported measures.
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Motivational Interviewing and Occupational Therapy

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Motivational interviewing is a therapeutic style of communication designed to help people resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities to find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior. This handout provides a brief overview of motivational interviewing techniques and highlights the key concepts to help occupational therapists elicit behavior change talk with their clients. 
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Motivational Interviewing for SLPs

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout describes the evidence base behind the practice of motivational interviewing, frequently used by rehabilitation therapists to help fine-tune goals and achieve mutual buy-in for the rehabilitation process between the clinician and the patient. The handout is designed for clinicians, staff, family, caregivers, and patients to help understand the process of motivational interviewing and how this process advances the rehabilitation goals.
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Motivating a Reluctant Client

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Provides ideas to empower clients who are reluctant or unmotivated for therapeutic intervention using a motivational interviewing approach as it relates directly to rehabilitation, and provides examples of documenting this in treatment notes.
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Health Management Log

December 26, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This health management log can be used to track a variety of important health related information for improved independence and self-awareness.
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Stress and Cognition

December 26, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout includes accessible, evidence-based information about how stress affects cognition and features 30 simple strategies to try that may help reduce stress. It is particularly designed for patients and families in the midst of rehabilitation after traumatic events.
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